There’s no shortage of secure devices out there, but if you happen to be a Kingston-only type of guy, you’re in luck. They’ve just put out a new USB stick that, like other secure drives, requires a password before you can access the data. It’s encrypted with a 256-bit key so I don’t think anybody will be brute-forcing that information any time soon. And if they put the wrong password 10 times… poof, formatted.
Personally, I still like the Lenovo secure drive I reviewed; having an actual keypad made it seem high-tech and reliable. Of course, I nearly have a panic attack whenever I have to use it because my “usual” password isn’t all numbers and I forget things easily.
Anyhow, you can rely on Kingston to have a decently fast, well-built little secure USB key, though they are a bit expensive. $36 for 4GB up to $200 for the 32GB? Cruel! I guess it’s not that far off from their other drives. In fact the only real difference is the swivel bit. Hey, slow news days aren’t my fault!
[via Electronista]
Great job done by Kingston. Now our secure data will be secure on the pen drive as well. No one can access the data without the authentication.
The flaw I see in the 10 failed tries and the data is formatted is what if somebody doesn’t want your data and just wants to be a jerk. He’ll take your secure drive when you’re not looking and enter 10 wrong passwords, and your stuff is formated.
They should make it so that after 10 failed tries the secure drive is locked out for a day. Then after something like 50 failed tries it formats. Who’s going to wait 5 days just to format your stuff.